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The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded further into the Indian Ocean on Friday amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago.
A U.S. official told The Associated Press that the Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing early last Saturday, raising the possibility the jet carrying 239 people could have flown far from the current search areas. It also increased speculation that whatever happened to the plane was a deliberate act.
Malaysia's Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search was expanding further afield, not because of any new information about the plane's flight, but because the aircraft has not yet been found.
Malaysian officials declined to discuss when —or even whether — they had information about signals to satellites, and that they would release details only when verified. Hishammuddin said Malaysian investigators have worked with U.S. colleagues in Kuala Lumpur since Sunday.
"I hope within a couple of days to have something conclusive," he told a press conference.
If the plane had disintegrated during flight or had suffered some other catastrophic failure, all signals — the pings to the satellite, the data messages and the transponder — would be expected to stop at the same time. Experts say a pilot or passengers with technical expertise may have switched off the transponder in the hope of flying undetected.
No theory, however, has been ruled out in one of aviation history's most puzzling mysteries.
The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200 last communicated with air traffic base stations east of Malaysia in the South China Sea, which for several days has the main focus of the search. Planes and ships also have been searching the Strait of Malacca west of Malaysia because of a blip on military radar suggested the plane might have turned in that direction after the last confirmed contact.
If the plane flew another four hours, it could be much farther away.
Indian ships and planes have been searching northwest of Malaysia in the eastern Andaman Sea, and on Friday expanded their search to areas west of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain Friday, said V.S.R. Murty, an Indian Coast Guard inspector-general.
The White House said the U.S. may be drawn into a new phase of the search in the vast Indian Ocean but did not offer details. The U.S. Navy 7th Fleet said it was moving one of its ships, the USS Kidd, into the Strait of Malacca.
Hishamuddin said the search also would be expanded to more remote parts of the South China Sea as well.
However, Vietnam, which has been heavily involved in the search from the start, downgraded its hunt in the South China Sea to regular from emergency on Friday by reducing the frequency of aircraft flights and cruises by ships involved, said Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of Vietnamese People's Army.
The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the situation by name, said the plane wasn't transmitting data to the satellite but was sending a signal to establish contact.
Boeing offers a satellite service that can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is functioning and relay the information to the plane's home base. The idea is to provide information before the plane lands on whether maintenance work or repairs are needed.
Malaysia Airlines didn't subscribe to that service, but the plane still had the capability to connect with the satellite and was automatically sending pings, the official said.
Boeing has not commented.
"It's like when your cellphone is off but it still sends out a little 'I'm here' message to the cellphone network," the official said. "That's how sometimes they can triangulate your position even though you're not calling because the phone every so often sends out a little bleep. That's sort of what this thing was doing."
Messages involving a different, more rudimentary data service also were received from the airliner for a short time after the plane's transponder — a device used to identify the plane to radar — went silent, the U.S. official said.
Hishammuddin said Malaysia was asking for radar data from India and other neighboring countries to see if they can trace it flying northwest. There was no word Friday that any other country had such details on the plane, and they may not exist.
In Thailand, secondary surveillance radar, which requires a signal from aircraft, runs 24 hours a day, but primary surveillance radar, which requires no signal at all, ordinarily shuts down at night at some locations, said a Royal Thai Air Force officer who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to talk to the media on the issue.
Air Marshal Vinod Patni, a retired Indian air force officer and a defense expert, said radar facilities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands area don't work around the clock, either. "These are generally switched on and off as and when required. A radar may be kept on for 24 hours on certain days. I won't say that the Indian radars are highly sophisticated in the region," he said.
Patni also said there are gaps in the coverage areas, including within the area being searched for the missing plane. He couldn't give an exact location for specific gaps, but said pilots are well aware of them.
The possibility that the plane flew long after its last confirmed contact opens the possibility that one of the pilots, or someone with flying experience, wanted to hijack the plane for some later purpose, kidnap the passengers or commit suicide by plunging the aircraft into the sea.
Mike Glynn, a committee member of the Australian and International Pilots Association, said he considers pilot suicide to be the most likely explanation for the disappearance, as was suspected in a SilkAir crash during a flight from Singapore to Jakarta in 1997 and an EgyptAir flight from Los Angeles to Cairo in 1999.
"A pilot rather than a hijacker is more likely to be able to switch off the communications equipment," Glynn said. "The last thing that I, as a pilot, want is suspicion to fall on the crew, but it's happened twice before."
Glynn said a pilot may have sought to fly the plane into the Indian Ocean to reduce the chances of recovering data recorders, and to conceal the cause of the disaster.
Experts said that if the plane crashed into the ocean, some debris should be floating even if most of the jet is submerged. Past experience shows that finding the wreckage can take weeks or even longer, especially if the location of the plane is in doubt.
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Study: US web users reject behavioural advertising
Citizens unexpectedly renounce spying and subterfuge
Americans do not want to be given tailored advertising based on monitoring of their online behaviour, according to what its authors call the first independent, academically rigorous survey of consumers' views.
Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Berkeley Centre for Law and Technology has found that 66% of adult US citizens do not want advertising to be tailored to what advertisers think are their interests.
Advertisers and publishers have grown increasingly likely to track web users' behaviour and to try to show them adverts that they think will be more relevant to them. Analysing relevance depends on the tracking of behaviour, which has raised questions of web users' rights to privacy.
The survey has found that two thirds of US web users do not want this to happen. It also found that once it explained the actual methods used to track behaviour that figure rose even higher, to between 73% and 86% after three common tactics were explained to them.
Publishers keen to increase advertising revenue and advertisers have claimed that tracking that does not identify users by name is acceptable to most people, because of the benefits that accrue from being shown more relevant ads. "To marketers, it is self-evident that consumers want customized commercial messages," the academics' report says. The survey's data appear to refute that argument.
"Contrary to what many marketers claim, most adult Americans (66%) do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interests," said the study. "We conducted this survey to determine which view Americans hold. In high percentages, they stand on the side of privacy advocates. That is the case even among young adults whom advertisers often portray as caring little about information privacy," it said. "Our survey did find that younger American adults are less likely to say no to tailored advertising than are older ones."
Other surveys have been conducted, but the academics from California and Pennsylvania said that they used methodologies that rendered their results less useful than their own study. The new study was based on phone interviews with 1,000 randomly-selected people which was weighted using census data to be nationally representative.
The study also found that even when tailored ads come with discounts or specially fashioned news, a majority do not want their web use to be tracked. Surveyed people also overwhelmingly backed legislating further to protect web users.
"69% of American adults feel there should be a law that gives people the right to know everything that a website knows about them; 92% agree there should be a law that requires websites and advertising companies to delete all stored information about an individual, if requested to do so; [and] 63% believe advertisers should be required by law to immediately delete information about their internet activity," the report said.
Companies that track web use often claim that the tracking is anonymous because a user's name is not discovered or stored. Privacy advocates argue that some of the data that is gathered, such as the internet protocol (IP) address of a person's internet connection, is inherently personal and that its gathering and storage is no longer anonymous.
But the new study found that even if anonymity could be guaranteed, web users would still reject tracking ad tailoring.
"Assurance of anonymous tracking doesn't seem to lower Americans' concerns about behavioural targeting," it said. "They are quite negative when it comes to the general scenario of free content supported by tailored advertising that results from 'following the websites you visit and the content you look at' in a manner that keeps them anonymous. 68% definitely would not allow it, and 19% would probably not allow it. 10% would probably allow, and only 2% would definitely do it; 1% say they don't know what they would do."
The strength of web users' feeling about the issue is reflected in the fact that 35% of them said that executives whose firms use information illegally should face jail time.
"This survey's findings support the proposition that consumers should have a substantive right to reject behavioural targeting and its underlying practices," said the report.
The report can be read here (pdf).
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Click the Addons menu, at the top of your page, and select Add more. Scroll to the Autoresponders option, and turn it on. After it's turned on, you can access the Autoresponder area by choosing Autoresponders under your Addons menu.
If you prefer, you can also click on the drop-down arrow next to your normal Compose button and choose the Autoresponder option.
Next complete these steps:
1. Name your campaign.
This should be something that makes sense to you; your subscribers won't ever see it.
2. Choose your list.
The campaign you're creating will send to every person that's on that list once it's running. As well as to contacts that are added to the list in the future. You cannot change the list later, so make sure you choose a list that works for your needs. Or feel free to create a new one.
3. Choose your intervals.
Decide when you want your sends to go out. You can choose "days," "weeks," or "months," and then a number. So, if you have several different emails in your campaign, you can send a new one every 2 days, every 3 weeks, every 4 months, or whatever works for you! Learn more about intervals, here.
4. Select the immediate option, if needed.
Checking this box will insure that the very first email in your campaign goes out as soon as a contact is added to your list (or, if a contact is already on that list, as soon as the campaign is completed and activated).
Now, it's time to design the drips! :)


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Trey Gowdy on Jobs | |
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act created a bright line to protect people's right to a 40-hour work week, and make sure that that next hour after 40 hours is paid for with the time-and-a-half of wages. That created the weekend in America. That created the time off that middle class families have taken for granted for decades.
What this bill does is it blurs that line; it creates total chaos in terms of trying to come up with a system to set up ground rules with a case-by-case written contract, and then leaves it to the enforcement of State Labor Departments Wage and Hours Divisions, which are totally incapable of going into the tens of thousands of workplaces all across America.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce's purpose is to ensure that Americans' needs are addressed so that students and workers may move forward in a changing school system and a competitive global economy. The following issues are under the jurisdiction of the Committee:
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free markets and limited government, has created a Congressional Labor Scorecard for the 112th Congress focusing on worker issues. The score is determined based on policies that support worker freedom and the elimination of Big Labor's privileges across the country.


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Charles Roper
It never fails to amaze me just how few people even understand the concept of 'a browser', let alone that they might be somehow different or that they render web pages differently. Most folk seem to consider the web-browser akin to the software found on their various set-to-boxes; i.e., they're immutable things that they just don't notice or care about.
If I get into a conversation about browser choice (and I usually try to avoid it if at all possible), it usually goes something like this:
"Have you tried Firefox? Google Chrome is nice too."
What are they?
"They're web browsers. You know, improved alternatives to Internet Explorer."
What's Internet Explorer?
"That thing you view the web on."
Why would I want a different one? The web works fine for me.
"They're faster, and some websites look better, and you can install extensions and stuff"
Alriiiight, how do I use them?
"Well you download and install them onto your computer…"
What does 'download and install' mean?
"You know what – never mind."
So I can totally understand why users – including clients – on inferior browsers will never notice the difference. They're just not that into computers. They are, however, into the content, and so long as they can get at that, and aren't annoyed by not being able to do what they set out to do, all will be well.


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Rachel Kenny started listening to podcasts in 2015 — and quickly fell behind. "As I started subscribing to more and more podcasts, they started stacking up, and I couldn't keep up at normal speed," the 26-year-old data scientist in Indianapolis told BuzzFeed News. "I also had to listen to the backlist of all the podcasts when I subscribed to them." So Kenny began listening faster: first at 2x, then she worked her way up to 3x. She stopped only because "that's just as fast as the Downcast app allows." She estimates that she listens to five to seven hours of podcasts a day (which equals 15 to 21 hours at normal speed), "so maybe 20 to 40 episodes a day or 100 to 250 a week," she said. She tracks her listening habits on a spreadsheet.
Kenny's listening habits may be extreme, but she's not alone. Meet the podfasters, a subset of podcast obsessives who listen to upward of 50 episodes a week, by, like Kenny, listening extremely fast. They're an exclusive group: According to Marco Arment, creator of the Overcast podcast app, only around 1% of Overcast listeners use speeds of 2x or higher. (An app called Rightspeed, which costs $2.99, allows you to listen at up to 10x.)
Podcast consumers listen to an average of five podcasts per week, according to a recent study, which seems like a nice, manageable number: enough time to listen to a true crime podcast or two, a long comedy podcast, maybe a dash of politics. But for some people, that's just not enough: Over 20% of podcast consumers listen to more than six per week, and podfasters — well, they listen to a lot more.
You could read these tendencies as a symptom of our sped-up culture, of a listening population too impatient or distracted to listen to anything for longer than, say, half an hour. But also, in the same way that peak TV and streaming has led to a culture of bingeing shows, we're now in peak podcast — there are a lot of good shows, and not enough time to listen to them.
But in conversations with people who listen at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists. That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to.
Take 34-year-old Jason Strickland, who works for a land surveyor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He listens to around eight hours of podcasts at work every day, and listened at normal speed until he came upon the Movies by Minutes series of podcasts, which analyzes iconic movies minute by minute. (In other words, every episode is devoted to one minute of a movie.) When he found it, the hosts had already completed the original Star Wars trilogy, which was 378 episodes, plus a few special episodes, so he started downloading 50 episodes at a time and listening at 2x speed. "It took about a month per movie to get caught up," he said, explaining that he would listen to whatever podcasts were on his current listening list in the morning, and then power through the Movies by Minutes episodes in the afternoons. "Once I was current, I would then go find another show to download and get caught up, repeating this for all the shows."
"I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up."
Sam Borley, a 28-year-old charity shop worker in Felixstowe, England, listens to his 56 weekly podcasts at different speeds, calibrating each one depending on the content and how fast or slow the hosts speak, though he said he listens to most at speeds between 2x and 3x. Like Kenny, when he finds a new podcast, he makes a point of listening to the entire back catalog. "I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up, and then set my favorites to automatically jump the queue and play next so I can catch up on some without falling behind on others," he said. "The Joe Rogan Experience, for example — it's up to nine hours a week of content, so it would be hard enough to keep up with that one alone if not listening at faster speed."
Laura McCavera, a second-year medical student in Vegas, said she started out listening to her medical school lectures at faster speeds before using the practice with podcasts as well. When she starts a new podcast, she begins at normal speed "to get a sense of the cadence, and then I increase it as necessary," maxing out at 2.5x. She compared listening to a sped-up podcast to skimming a book, explaining that podcasts are easier than lectures to listen to casually, "so it's less stressful to try to make sure you get every word."
Podcast producers and hosts were mixed on their feelings about podfasters. Georgia Hardstark, who cohosts the Apple Podcasts top 25 My Favorite Murder podcast with fellow comedian Karen Kilgariff (tagline: Stay sexy, don't get murdered), said it doesn't bother her: "Everyone's brain works at a different pace so it doesn't worry me. Plus each person listens to a podcast for a different reason, so if they're just looking for information and not humor, then they won't be missing anything." She added that she personally listens to some podcasts at a slower speed when she's trying to fall asleep.
Gina Delvac, the producer of Call Your Girlfriend, in which long-distance best friends Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow catch up weekly about women's issues, said she understood how someone would listen to CYG at a faster speed. "It's loose, it's conversational, it's meant to feel free-flowing. But for some programs I've worked on, or if you think about people who do really densely produced stuff, there's a whole experience that's built around that kind of audio experience." She added, "I don't have hate because I'm very intrigued by how people decide to consume what we make."
Some podcast apps include a feature that automatically gets rid of pauses, which Delvac is more conflicted about. "There are kinds of intentional storytelling where you put a pause in there for a reason."
But Eric Eddings, host of The Nod, feels that sped-up listening is unequivocally bad. "I don't think it should ever happen," said Eddings, who used to host the now-ended podcast For Colored Nerds. "The shows I've worked on have all been really sound- and music-rich. And you're just fundamentally gonna miss that if you're listening at even 1.5." He recalled the first story he ever produced, about some men from his mother's hometown in Louisiana. "It was just stacked with things that would not work at 1.5 speed. You have all these elderly Southern men recounting their life, which is really serious and intense. On top of that, we had sound effects and scoring music coming in. We took a song from this meeting that happened in the '70s and slowed it down and built it into the episode. My soul dies when I think of somebody listening to that at 1.5 or 2."
In June, Apple announced that it would be opening up its analytics to allow podcast producers to be able to see just how many people were listening to their podcasts — including how many of them were skipping over the ads. Many podcast ads are direct response — that is, they give you a code to use for a discount on a product — so this has, until now, been the best way that advertisers could measure the effectiveness of their ads. But if people are listening to podcasts at very fast speeds, does that diminish their value to advertisers?
Lex Friedman, chief revenue officer for Midroll Media, a large podcast ad network and owner of the Earwolf network of podcasts, said no — and in fact, podfasters could potentially be more valuable to advertisers because they may be less likely to skip ads. Friedman himself listens to podcasts at 1.8x. "I think people like me are less likely to skip ads because they're wasting less time when they're listening," he said. He added that he's never heard an advertiser complain about podfasters. "I really do genuinely believe that if it's having any effect on ads, it's making them more likely to be heard. Now they'll pay attention to the ads. I don't think it harms the ads' efficacy."
In fact, according to behavioral neuroscientist Stephen Porges, because recordings played at higher speeds are at a higher pitch, they are actually easier to hear. Low-frequency noises, like street noise, vacuum cleaners, or airplanes, get in the way of our understanding of people talking; by playing podcasts at a higher speed, the listener is creating a greater acoustic differentiation between the words and lower-frequency background noises. According to Porges, the muscles in the middle ear help to dampen low-frequency sound so we can hear speech more clearly — but if we don't exercise those muscles (by, say, not having much human interaction), then they don't work as well. Thus, listening to things at a higher frequency, and speed, could be helpful.
That makes sense to Josh Winn, a 38-year-old podfaster in San Diego who listens at 2.3x and has a total of 184 podcast feeds in his Overcast app. Though he can now hear perfectly, he was born mostly deaf and learned to speak with limited hearing — which meant, he said, that his speaking was "fairly unintelligible to most folks." When he was in high school, his parents gave him an audio course from a personal development company as a form of informal speech therapy, in which the instructor said that speaking slowly is actually bad for listener comprehension. When he started listening to podcasts, he recalled this course. "Because I was able to slowly test faster and faster podcast speeds, I was able to gradually adjust until the speed became too rapid for me to comfortably listen and follow," he said. "I knew it was too fast when I had to rewind a bit to catch what was said, or to understand the nuance of meanings."
Neuroscientist Uri Hassan, whose Hassan Lab at Princeton studies brain responses to real-life events, has studied how the brain processes sped-up speech. He pointed out that even at normal speed, most people don't catch every single word that's being said. "If you make it one-third faster, it's almost perfect — they don't lose a lot," he said. He also noted that the brain is able to easily adapt to different speaking speeds. "Your brain responses become slower when I speak slowly, and brain responses become faster when I speak faster." But, he cautioned, comprehension starts to break down around 2x, and at 3x "it really breaks down."
There's one exception to this, though: blind people. "Because they are so used to only listening, they can speed it up faster than sighted people," Hassan said. "They're really trained."
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, who does social media for Chabad and runs an organization with his wife, Chana, called Tech Tribe, had perhaps the most philosophical view of speed listening. (He listens to the 75 podcasts in his feed at 2.8x.) When asked how he decided to increase his speed, he responded, "There's a concept that whenever you're striving to do something new, whatever is hard now, that's what you should try to do. Then when you become complacent and comfortable that's a sign that it's time to move on. I'm applying that concept on a spiritual level. As soon as I could really hear what's going on, I would inch it up a little bit. Just keep on moving it, more and more." ●


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Apple has updated the iOS incarnation of GarageBand to add Audiobus support.
The addition means that users can now bring audio from other supported iOS applications into GarageBand for recording and playback via the separate Audiobus app. It's a feature which adds considerably to the usability of the already-fantastic mobile DAW.
By way of celebration, Audiobus is currently available from the App Store for half of its usual price (now £2.99/$4.99.) For a full list of iOS applications that currently support Audiobus, check out the developer's official site.
Relatedly, yesterday saw the unveiling of iOS audio routing tool JACK Audio Connection Kit - seemingly a direct rival to Audiobus. This endorsement from Apple, however, is sure to give Audiobus the edge for the time being.
Version 1.4 of GarageBand for iOS also adds the option to disable snap-to-grid while editing.


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Very much inspired by my interview with Bryan Behrenshausen, I've been spending a lot more time working with Markdown. Day-to-day, at work and at home, I usually work with either HTML or word processed documents. I'm fast with HTML and proficient with word processors, and I rarely need to convert one to the other, but I liked the idea of simplifying my process and using Markdown for everything, with pandoc to convert it.
Markdown is simple enough, but there is a learning curve, so while one of the advantages of it is that it doesn't require any kind of special editor, the reality is that I needed something with a preview so I could make sure my syntax looked OK (which it often did not). As a result, I went through a few Markdown editors, trying to find the one I like best (and because I love a good rabbit hole).
I eventually narrowed my list to three: ReText, UberWriter, and gedit-markdown.
When choosing software, I can usually tell if something will work for me in the first hour or so of use. All three of these editors were very usable to me, which is why I wound up needing a bake-off. I still haven't really picked one, although I do spend the most time in gedit, mostly because it's where I do everything. And even as I've gotten a handle on Markdown, I appreciate the preview all three provide, just to get a sense of how the final product will look.
ReText is simple. It's just a text window. It has a spellcheck and a live preview. It lets you natively export to HTML, ODT, or PDF. It also lets you grab the HTML as source. There's not much to it, which I see as a feature. My main issue with it is that it's black text on white background and I prefer white text on a dark background. There's a CSS file that can be tweaked, but I haven't explored that part of ReText yet. Also, Linux Setup interviewee Amy Cavender is a ReText user.
UberWriter is beautiful (as I've mentioned before). It's got the same basic export options as ReText, plus an advanced export menu I've never had to use. It has spellcheck, a running word count, and a dark mode. It also lets you copy the Markdown into HTML without having to do a formal export, which is a nice feature. There's also a focus mode, which puts an emphasis on your current line and de-emphasizes previous ones.
It's great, but I have a few issues with UberWriter. One is that it doesn't remember the dark color scheme—it has to be set each time it's open. I think it's under review as a feature, though. There's also no search and replace ability, although that's also on the roadmap. Another issue is that there's no preview for me, which I believe is because I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and there's some kind of dependency issue (I'm not sure it's supported for 12.04, although it runs fine otherwise).
UberWriter is $5 through the Ubuntu Software Center and despite those few issues, it's well worth the money.
gedit-markdown is gedit with a preview window. The preview isn't live—you have to manually update it, but other than that, it does everything gedit does, which for me, a gedit lover, is a nice thing.
I assumed that as I got used to Markdown (it's really not super complicated), I'd just phase out the preview window, but it's actually proven to be very helpful to me, just in terms of checking the formatting of stuff I'm writing.
So for now, I'm sticking with gedit for my Markdown needs, although I'm keeping an eye on UberWriter because it has a great look and feel and seems to be continually improved. But ReText is also a strong option for anyone who wants a simple Markdown editor.
Originally posted on My Linux Rig. Reposted using Creative Commons.


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If our thoughts, minds and imagination aren't limited, why should the Torah be? Just because the part we can see is physically constructed of a set number of letters and spaces laid out in a definitive matrix, why can't there be more there than meets the eye.
Let's say we can expand the Torah Matrix of 248 columns by 42 rows, totaling 10416 lines, beyond their arbitrary artificial borders. Let's say we did it 7 fold, or 7 times, as in the time cycle of 7 with which for spiritual reasons we Biblically count our days, weeks, and jubilee years. The cycle of 7 is a spiritual pumping mechanism in which every Shabbot the holy sparks we've uncovered that week are raised up (as if by elevator) and deposited above, exchanged for spiritual sustenance before we descend again for the next 6 days.
If we did expand the Torah 7 fold, we'd get 10416 x 7 = 72912, whose square root is 270.222, evocative of the 22 and 27 building blocks of the Hebrew alphabet, which are the prima fascia physical manifestations of the primordial black fire, and it's also evocative of the number 2701, the numerical value of the Torah's first verse.
Sure, this expansion is arbitrary, but in a Torah model that we already know works out two different ways to exactly 58, why would we think there is any way that the Torah is meant to be simply 2-dimensional?
So for arguments sack, let's say that the Torah matrix of 248 x 42 is 7 layers deep. It could be 70, or could be whatever, but at 7 levels deep we know that there are 72912 character spaces in a long narrow slab like shape. And while we're at it, why can't we fold that slab over, twist it, turn it into a ring, a mobius strip, or torus? We can of course, and it would never change what we see on the surface: "In the beginning G-d created Heaven and Earth…"
So what if the 42 rows times the number of columns x 7 layers worked out to a precise–we won't say perfect, because the Torah is always perfect–72,000 lines? What would that mean? For starters, if we divide the cubic volume of 72,000 lines by 7 (it's depth) and by 42 (it's height), the resultant length of the Torah would be a very plausible 244.8 columns, given that most current Torahs are either 245 or 248 columns in length. These 244.8 columns are, of course, so reminiscent of the year 2448 which is when the Israelites received the Torah at Mt Sinai.
Remember, this is hypothetical. Nevertheless, let's take those 72,000 lines at the given 29.31944 letters/line which we've previously showed to be the Torah's average per line. It works out to 2111000 letters. Then, if one letter were to equal one day in time, the 72,000 lines would be equivalent to 5779.50 years, or in the Western calendar, the year 2019 CE, as constantly keeps coming up for the final redemption (geula), and as in line with the prophecies of the tzaddikim.
In keeping with the concept of cycles and time, let's see if this relates to the lunar months upon which the Hebrew calendar is based. Since there are not 29.319 days in a lunar month, but actually 29.53059 days/month, the resultant 5779.5 years is equal to 71485 lunar months. And the difference between 72,000 and 71485 is 515, which is analogous to the 515 times that Moses prayed to enter the Promised Land, which, according to the sages, would have brought the final redemption right then. It's also notably akin to the 515 hours between Rosh Hashannah (head of the lunar/solar year) and Hoshana Rabba (the checking of the lunar shadow and the sealing of our annual fate). Once again, cycles, this time annual.
Nevertheless, let's get back to our primordial space/time unit that the Torah matrix was designed upon, the square root of 5. One of the fundamental Names of G-d, the "I am" in "I am that I am," Ehyeh (EHYH) when spelled out in its highest form has a numerical value of 161 and 161/√5 = 72.00, evocative for sure of the 72 Names of G-d that were physically constructed from the 3 consecutive 72-letter verses of Exodus that bridged the Red Sea (Endless Sea).
We can thus say that this matrix of 72,000 character spaces is comprised of 1000 spatial units of Ehyeh(161/√5 ) , or 1000 x 72.00. Think about it because this is not an easy simple concept and it's a very different way to conceive of the Torah and indeed of time/space. The Names of G-d are not static letter written on sheet of parchment.
Obviously, these 72 Names (triplets) existed spiritually long before the black fire coalesced at Creation and we see that the collective sum of the square roots of the individual 72 Names is 720.0, or 10 times 72.00, which is 10 times 161/√5 which is the numerical equivalent of the "spiritual space" of Ehyeh in each of the 10 sefirot (dimensions) that comprise the Tree-of-life. There are also 10 letters in Ehyeh (ELP HY YVD HY spelled out, reflecting its expansion throughout the 10 sub-sefirot (dimensions) of each dimension.
Please note that the 72 Names, like the Torah and the 42-Letter Name of G-d are designed to form a specific matrix, an 8 column by 9 row one, and that when sum the collective square roots of each of the sum of the numerical values of the names in the 9 rows, we get improbably 280.0, the counter part to (1000 – 720.0). Please recall that the expanded 72,000 character Torah matrix is 1000 units of Ehyeh.
If the 72 triplets were set in any other matrix, this would not have worked out this way, and neither would the fact that there are only two places amongst the 72 triplets where letters have back to back triple tagin (crowns): column 5, row 7 and column 7, row 8, or 5-7-7-8. 5778 HC (2018 CE), anyone? Don't forget 5778 years are just 5778 cycles of Earth circling the sun whose surface temperature is 5778 K.
As we enjoy the intense celestial light shows presented by the record solar flares being shot directly from the Sun to the Earth this year, do we have any doubts that there isn't a greater design purpose here?
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West Oak Lane, Pennsylvania, is home to some of the best schools in the state. Whether you're looking for a public school, private school or even a charter, West Oak Lane has it all! With so many options available, deciding which school is right for your family can be difficult. To help make your decision easier, we've compiled a list of the top schools in West Oak Lane. Read on to learn more about these exceptional educational institutions.
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Bobby Meadows has joined Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab as executive director. Meadows, a licensed nursing home administrator, has 13 years of nursing home experience, including 11 as an executive director. Most recently, he served for six years at Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Memphis.
Experience: In 1999, I started in a 246-bed facility, one of the largest facilities in the state of Alabama, as a certified nursing assistant and later was state-precepted and became licensed. I became the assistant administrator in 2001.
Later that same year, Beverly Healthcare came to me to run a two-building, 188-bed home in Fairfield, Ala. After much success, I was asked to become senior executive director of several homes while operating a 132-bed facility.
In late 2006, I was asked to take a closed facility in Memphis that was unable to clear survey. I re-opened the facility deficiency-free and maintained 98 percent occupancy; developed resident and family councils; and had 95 percent and over patient, family, clinical, and rehabilitation satisfaction.
Family: My wife, Melissa, and I have been married for nearly 12 years. Together we have three girls: Emma Grace, 10; Hannah Mae, 8; and Reese Pressley, 4.
Favorite quote: I actually have two that I love: "Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." (Samuel Ullman); and "When you can't score from the 1, you don't deserve to win." (Paul Bryant)
Favorite movie: "A Field of Dreams"
The sports team(s) you root for: University of Alabama, the Chicago Bears and Memphis Grizzlies
What's playing on your stereo right now? The Avett Brothers
Activities you enjoy outside of work: U. of Alabama athletics, running, riding a motorcycle and visiting my family in Alabama and Arkansas.
What talent do you wish you had? I wish I could play any musical instrument.
Who has had the greatest influence on you? My grandfather, Bobby Meadows Sr., married over 50 years, worked in the West Virginia coal mines his whole life. He was a man of integrity, character, adventure, wisdom and wit.
What attracted you to Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab? I was impressed by its long, rich tradition, history and devotion to its residents, staff, and to the city of Memphis.
What are your goals in your new position? My biggest goal will be to carry on MJHR's tradition of high quality care within a Jewish environment.
What do you consider your greatest accomplishment? I am grateful to be allowed the opportunity to care for others. This not only comes from being a father of three girls, but also from the residents that I help care for.
What do you most enjoy about your work? I love working with the elderly – they're full of wisdom and honesty. They tell it like it is. They never dance around the truth.
If you could give one piece of advice to young people, what would it be? Find something you love to do. In order to do this, you may have to try new things and new fields you never thought you'd like.
Adam Humphries has been named a vice president commercial relationship manager at FirstBank. Humphries will focus on business development and treasury management in the Memphis commercial lending group. He previously served as senior vice president of treasury management sales at First Tennessee Bank.
Michael Leonard has been appointed vice president of private banking at Paragon National Bank. Leonard will be responsible for providing custom-banking solutions to business owners, executives, doctors and professionals in Memphis.
The West Clinic has been selected by the National Committee for Quality Assurance to participate in the new Patient-Centered Specialty Practice program, which will offer recognition to specialty practices that demonstrate a commitment to improving access to and coordination of patient care.
Nancy Guy of Crye-Leike Realtors has earned the company's certified premier property specialist designation. Guy, a vice president of Crye-Leike, is based out of the company's Forest Hill-Irene branch and assists buyers and sellers in and around Fayette, Desoto and Shelby counties.
Landers Ford has received Ford Motor Co.'s President Award for the 12th consecutive year. The award is given to Ford dealerships based on customer survey responses related to sales, service, satisfaction and overall dealership experience.
Sarah Bacot, a senior at Rhodes College, has been named a Watson fellow, which includes a stipend to study abroad for 2013-2014. Bacot plans to travel to Argentina, India, South Africa and Poland while completing her project, "Out of the Closets, Into the Streets: Exploring Queer Identity Through Community Organizations and Pride Parades."


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OCZ Announces Low-Voltage AMD Black Edition Memory
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San Jose, Calif. -- September 24, 2009 -- OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today expanded their lineup of DDR3 to include certified OCZ Black Edition 4GB kits for ultimate compatibility with AMD's next-generation Phenom II processors. These modules excel on Black Edition platforms at ultra-low voltage, an ideal parameter for the latest highly efficient processors. OCZ's unique Black Edition Series is designed to be the ultimate upgrade for users who not only want to reap the benefits of high-frequency DDR3, but want a future-proof choice for their system.
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OCZ Black Edition kits are tested and qualified specifically for AMD's own "Black Edition" Phenom CPUs for ultimate performance and stability. Featuring the exclusive AMD OverDrive (AOD) feature, users can unleash the remote stored profiles when used with 790FX / 790GX motherboards, giving the cutting-edge with instant "plug and play" functionality. This highly advanced AOD feature detects your OCZ Black Edition RAM when used in conjunction with certified motherboards and processors, where the data is then sent to a remote AMD server to download the correct profiles and get your system up and running at its peak. Eliminating the need for manual overclocking, the AOD does all the work for you as you charge through your games and computing tasks.
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Adams State Founder & Former CO Governor William H. "Billy" Adams
Adams Family Tree
Newspapers 1885 to 1889
Biography of William H. Adams
By James O. Chipman
Colorado State Staff Archivist
William H. Adams was born at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, on February 15, 1861. His father was a native of Kentucky, his mother of New York, and both were pioneers of the lead mining districts of Wisconsin. In 1871 the family crossed the plains by wagon, stopped a short time at Greeley, again at Denver, and located for some time at Colorado Springs. Here William continued a common school education begun in Wisconsin. His parents came west for the sake of their son, George, who was struggling with tuberculosis. George improved for a time, but then died in 1873. While Billy's folks went back to Wisconsin, he and his brother, Alva, stayed in Colorado.
Alva and Billy moved to Pueblo where Alva established a hardware store. Billy Adams managed his brother's hardware store for a short time but decided he didn't like being confined indoors as he always liked to work with cattle and loved horses. He moved to Alamosa in 1878 and tried almost as many jobs as he had fingers on his hands working as a teamster, a cowpuncher, a hay hand and an irrigator. Little, by little, he picked up land and bought a few cattle so that in a few years he had a working ranch.
He had few years of formal schooling, but while working on the various ranches, he found he had plenty of spare time, especially at night while he was sitting at a campfire or in a saddle. It was during these periods that he read, whenever he found a scrap of time. He studied law, history, government and economics, picking up an interest in politics along the way. Almost before he was old enough to vote, he was first elected City Treasurer, then mayor of Alamosa, and finally Conejos County Commissioner in 1883. Three years later in 1886, he was elected to the State Legislature as a representative and two years after that to the State Senate, where he served continuously until he was elected governor thirty-eight years later in 1926.
In 1883, he was one of the organizers of the San Luis Canal near Alamosa. He continued to expand his ranch into a large area of land along the Rio Grande River and the La Jara meadows in the mountains to the west. When Adams first arrived in the area, the range was being worked from Saguache to the New Mexico line and from Del Norte to Fort Garland. He saw the San Luis Valley change from this vast cattle range to its present development as one of Colorado's great agricultural districts.
During his long career in the legislature, there were times when Adams was the only Democrat in the senate while there were other times when he led the majority party. Good weather or bad, he fought for what he thought was best for his county and his state. In the forty-two years he served in the legislative halls, he introduced only one bill. The bill was passed and created the Alamosa State Normal School at Alamosa. Later it was changed to the Adams State Teachers College. He was also instrumental in creating the Colorado Agricultural College at Fort Collins, the Colorado State Teachers College at Greeley, and Western State College at Gunnison.
As governor, he held a tight line on state expenses. "I tried to do for the people of Colorado just what I'd do for my own business," he said once, "cut corners and watch expenses." His administration is remembered for his efforts in obtaining both economy and efficiency in state government. He supported appropriations for two year periods only. He lobbied to have the heads of departments and administrative boards removed from civil service and put under the governor's direction.
In the field of corrections, Governor Adams granted no pardons and rarely reduced sentences; and he never intervened when a death penalty was handed down. A prison riot at Canon City in October of 1929, cost the lives of eight guards and five prisoners, and focused attention upon overcrowding, idleness and other unfortunate conditions existing in the state penitentiary. A fire at the same institution in the following February further emphasized the need for prison reform measures. Adams appointed and supported Roy Best as warden of the state penitentiary, and it was Billy who stuck by Best when he was charged by the federal government in 1952 with torturing convicts and when he was suspended for two years by the State Civil Service Commission.
Another major challenge with which Adams had to deal was a strike of coal miners in 1927. In this conflict, the Industrial Workers of the World took a prominent part. A clash in Boulder County between strikers and state militia resulted in the deaths of eight strikers and the wounding of twenty others. Adams' response to this strike and his stands on many other issues made him very popular with the voters. He was elected twice as governor during Republican landslides, once as the only Democrat elected to a state office!
Just as he didn't appreciate "silver-tongued" oratory, Billy didn't like fancy clothes. He was small in stature and at all times featured the same kind of clothes. A Stetson hat of the cowboy type, but not of the five gallon variety, was his head-piece. Often it was battered and worn, along with his cowboy boots, while he was riding the range among his cattle. He always wore a dark grey, plain patterned suit with the same cut and material. The only exception was when Charles A. Lindbergh came to town, when he bought a blue suit for the occasion.
Adams was married twice. His first marriage, to Emma Ottaway, the granddaughter of Colonel John M. Chivington, ended in divorce. His second wife, Hattie Mullins, died in 1918, two years after their marriage. No children were born to either marriage. Right after his second marriage, he bought and gave to his wife a shiny, new model T Ford. He never learned to drive himself, but enjoyed long evening rides with his wife at the wheel.
William H. Adams died on February 3, 1954, in Alamosa at the age of ninety-two and is buried in that city. He will be remembered for his fifty years of public service. Adams State College in Alamosa is an enduring monument to his interest in education and his devotion to the district he served for so many years. It was to Colorado's great benefit that the Adams' family decided to move out west in 1871 as the state became the recipient of two brothers, Alva and William who both became governors, and one nephew, Alva B.Adams who served in the United States Senate.


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Website will be live on Saturday, January 22nd.
A Gentle Kind of Cruelty
Solo Exhibition
Jan 22—Feb 19, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, Jan 22, 6—8pm
NEW YORK, NY (November 1, 2010) — Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present A Gentle Kind of Cruelty, new works by Toronto-based artist Ray Caesar
in what will be his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show
will feature printed multiples as well as several large-scale, original,
one-of-a-kind prints. Caesar expands upon his signature aesthetic in
this exhibition by taking a more painterly approach, rendering new
imagery with softer edges and greater movement than in previous work.
The artist's digitally created dreamscapes, set in elaborately furnished
Rococo-style interiors, feature haunting doll-like female figures with
delicate features and porcelain complexions. The hybrid characters,
part-child-part-woman, some sprouting tails, tentacles and other animal
appendages, all wear elaborate costumes that reference fashions of the
past and often incorporate futuristic elements as well.
Caesar works in Maya (a 3D modeling software used for
digital animation effects in film and game industries), using it to
create his figures as well as the virtual realms in which they exist.
Through the program, he builds digital models with invisible skeletons
and anatomical joints that can be bent and manipulated to assume any
pose. He wraps the models in rich textures, adding hair, skin, eyelashes
and fingernails. Then places them in digitally lit, impeccably detailed
3D environments built with architectural layers, windows, wallpapers,
curtains and furnishings. Caesar's meticulous process incorporates
elements of drawing, painting, collage and sculpture, working countless
hours to achieve every remarkably intricate tableau. Further emphasizing
his sculptural technique, Caesar compares his process of 2D printmaking
with imagery created in 3D as being similar to the practice of
capturing stills from video and film.
With full control over dressing, posing and lighting his
figures as well as every element of their surroundings, Caesar's craft
is an advanced extension of a childhood obsession—playing with dolls.
Fantasy, escapism, human cruelty and disguise are reoccurring themes
explored within his dramatic narratives. Betraying the seemingly
child-like innocence of the figures is their piercing, knowing
gaze—exposing inner strength in contrast with their fragile physical
appearance. Dark details manifest from deep within the artist's vast
imagination to define simulated realities, transporting the viewer into
sanctuaries created for his lost ghost-children who emerge from shadows
into safe refuge, carrying macabre secrets and hidden truths.
Ray Caesar was born in 1958 in
London. At an early age, his family moved to Toronto, Canada, where he
currently resides. From 1977—80 he attended Ontario College of Art, followed by 17 years from 1980—96 working in the art & photography department of the Hospital For Sick Children in
Toronto, documenting disturbing cases of child abuse, surgical
reconstruction, psychology, and animal research. Coupled with
inspiration from surrealists Kahlo and Dali, Caesar's
experiences at the hospital continue to influence his artwork. His
haunting imagery is created digitally using 3D modeling software called
Maya, mastered while working in digital animation for television and
film industries from 1998—2001. In 1999, Caesar received a Primetime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Special Effects in a series.
Get Pretty Now
Solo Exhibition
Jan 22—Feb 19, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, Jan 22, 6—8pm
NEW YORK, NY (December 20, 2010) — Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce Get Pretty Now, new works by Los Angeles-based artist Erik Mark Sandberg in what will be his second solo exhibition at the gallery. Get Pretty Now includes
mixed media paintings, sculpture and works on paper, combining a
variety of materials such as resins, enamels, oils, inks, acrylics,
digital collage and photographs with various printmaking techniques.
Sandberg's portrait series depicts anomalous figures whose
features are obscured by a thick coat of colorful hair, wearing
fluorescent-colored clothing with loud, graphic prints. His abstract
paintings are equally striking, vibrant and texturally rich,
complementing hues and patterns of the hairy subjects in his figurative
Cultural dichotomies are a source of inspiration for much
of Sandberg's imagery, and his use of hair is (in a broad sense) a
visual metaphor for their effects. In the artist's own words: "My
work investigates the psychological effects of trying to achieve smoke
and mirror standards of beauty, standards that run in opposition to
contemporary mass-consumed food advertising." His bold color
choices, while mainly intuitive decisions, also offer conceptual
reinforcement. On the subject of palette, the artist says: "Fluorescents
and neons have a very manufactured, artificial quality. They're exotic,
living outside of the normal spectrum."
Thematically, the artist explores consumer culture,
celebrity idolatry and social dysfunction in the digital age, with a
focus on the relationship between projected idealized archetypes and
their unattainable emulation. In some of the work, references are made
to narratives (in the more extreme, degrading vein of) contemporary
Hip-hop music, and its paradoxical airing on mainstream radio sponsored
by product advertisements carrying affectations of family values.
Sandberg has a keen interest in these phenomena and how everyday people
become victims of what he refers to as consumer Stockholm syndrome.
Erik Mark Sandberg was born in
1975 in Farmington, Minnesota, and currently resides in Los Angeles. In
2002, he received a BFA with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. From 2003—2007, he studied with former Gemini Gel Master Printer Anthony Alan Zepeda.
In the years since, he has achieved steady success in the fields of
Fine Art and Illustration, receiving numerous grants and awards. From
2006 to present, Sandberg has taught concurrently at Art Center College of Design in the printmaking department, OTIS College of Art and Design and California State University, Northridge.
Jonathan LeVine Gallery exhibits a genre of work influenced by illustration, comic book art, graffiti, street art and pop culture imagery. We represent a mix of emerging and mid-career artists with an emphasis on cultivating new talent and creating an environment where artists can further develop their work. Since 2005, the first year established in New York, Jonathan LeVine Gallery has remained focused on maintaining its mission of community and commitment to providing our artists with a nurturing arena for experimentation and discussion. The gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. For further information, please visit: www.jonathanlevinegallery.com, call: 212.243.3822, or email: email@example.com.
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Today is Memorial Day in the United States and Summer is finally here! This past winter felt extra cold which is why me and my babiekin are looking forward to enjoying the sun and having fun in the water this Summer. I don't know about you but I love bright colors in Summer; one of my favorite Swim Trends this Summer Season for Kids is Rainbows. Rainbows are playful and full of bright color – I especially love this totally unique inflatable rainbow splash pad and these fun swimwear styles with Rainbows for boys and girls.
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Two little old ladies were sitting on a park bench outside the local town hall where a flower show was in progress. The older one leaned over and said, ''Life is so boring. We never have any fun anymore. For $10.00 I'd take my clothes off and streak through that stupid, boring flower show!''
''You're on!'' said the other old lady, holding up a $10.00 note.
The first little old lady slowly fumbled her way out of her clothes and completely naked, streaked (as fast as an old lady can) through the front door of the flower show.
Waiting outside, her friend soon heard a huge commotion inside the hall, followed by loud applause and shrill whistling.
Finally, the smiling and naked old lady came through the exit door surrounded by a cheering, clapping crowd.
''What happened?'' asked her waiting friend.
''I won $1000 as 1st prize for 'Best Dried Arrangement'.''


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The real bread of the Eucharist has plenty to say about people starving while others eat $17 burgers.
Chicago has recently experienced an unholy attack on the Eucharist, at least in its presanctified form, if the news is to be believed. The sacrilege involved the unhappy pairing of a host (unconsecrated) and a hamburger at Kuma's Corner, a trendy grill on the Second City's Northwest Side. The 10-ounce goat-and-beef "Ghost Burger" was created in honor of a heavy metal band (as all of Kuma's creations are) whose lead singer appears dressed as a Roman Catholic cardinal. Thus a red wine reduction and communion wafer made sense as condiments to the band Ghost B.C.'s onstage antics.
Objection to Kuma's $17 burger came mostly from Facebook: "What was being presented was not as offensive to me as much to my God and my savior," said Keir Norwell, according to the Chicago Tribune. Kuma's Luke Tobias turned the controversy in a decidedly theological direction by pointing out that "the communion wafer is unconsecrated, so until that happens, it's really just a cracker."
Kuma's did attempt to mend fences, however, by making its monthly charitable donation of $1,500 payable to Catholic Charities—which promptly returned it, urging Kuma's Corner to "discontinue selling a burger that disrespects [the Catholic] faith and the faith of all Christians," according to local news website dnainfo.com.
Lost in the furor surrounding whether the Ghost Burger insulted Catholics or Christ's body was the simple fact that the burger, like many others, is served on a pretzel bun—that is, bread. Yet no one seemed to make the connection between a specialty bread created for religious services and a specialty bread made for a $17 hamburger. That's too bad, because the real tragedy is not that someone put a host on a hamburger; it's that we have allowed something called a "host" to take the place of bread in our celebration of the Eucharist.
That mistake has allowed us to forget that the Eucharist is about the actual food that we eat every day, including the bread that pops up in the morning from our toasters and provides the base for the peanut butter sandwiches our children eat.
That's not to say that the Eucharist doesn't have something to say about a $17 hamburger in a world in which 2 billion people live on $2 a day; it just doesn't have anything to do with a poorly placed host. On the contrary, the real bread of the Eucharist has a lot to say about a system that apportions food in such a way that a very few enjoy "slowly braised goat shoulder, aged white cheddar cheese, and Ghost chile aioli"—plus wafer and red wine reduction—while just blocks away someone is rooting through the alley garbage for a daily meal.
The real bread of the Eucharist might also have something to say about a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives in September cutting $40 billion from food stamps over 10 years—an insult to the body of Christ made flesh in the bodies of poor hungry people if ever there was one.
Yet as long as what passes for "bread" in the Eucharist is, as Tobias points out, "just a cracker," the tie between the Eucharist and our actual daily food will remain tenuous at best, and the connection between the "Eucharist and the hunger of the world," the stirring title of a book by the late Catholic liturgist Monika Hellwig, may never be realized.
If the Eucharist is, among other things, the pattern of how all meals are shared in the reign of God—everyone receiving what they need, with enough to satisfy all who come, and some left over—then the eucharistic food we share must be recognizable as the same bread that graces our family tables rather than a specialty religious confection seen only at church on Sunday but never at Sunday dinner.
After all, it is the abuse of actual bread—when it is withheld from the poor, when it is hoarded, and when it is wasted—that offends the meaning of the Eucharist. So it is only actual bread that can be the sacrament of the gospel alternative, where Christ is known and all are fed in the breaking and sharing of a single loaf of (real) bread.
This article appeared in the December 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 78, No. 12, page 8).
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Upon learning of the cyberattack, the city immediately contacted law enforcement including the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The city is now offering LifeLock services to active customers of Pensacola Energy, active employees and retirees of the city, active and pending applicants for Section 8 housing and active vendors who supplied the city their SSN rather than an FEIN number.
The city is not aware of anyone's information having been misused, but please refer to the letter you received for information about steps you can take to protect yourself. The city also recommends that you monitor your statements and accounts for unusual or suspicious activity.
Once the city learned of this issue, we immediately took steps to investigate the incident and determine the nature of the incident and scope of the information that was potentially accessed. We also engaged LifeLock to provide credit monitoring and identity theft protection to impacted individuals, which took time.


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Jewels of Central Europe & Jewish Heritage - Cruise Only
On this Europe river cruise vacation, you'll sail along the Danube, Main, Rhine, and Moselle Rivers. Board your ship in vibrant Budapest, Hungary, then see some of the most intriguing cities of Austria and Germany, before ending your cruise in Luxembourg. On the first portion of your cruise, from Budapest to Nuremberg, also discover the European Jewish Heritage through dedicated sightseeing in Vienna and Regensburg, and an onboard lecture about Jewish culture and history.Sail out of Budapest, past the impressive Parliament Building on the Danube River, to Austria's elegant capital of Vienna. There's a guided walk in the quaint village of Dürnstein, in the heart of the Wachau Valley, and a visit to the magnificent Benedictine Abbey of Melk. You'll be introduced to the treasures of Passau, Regensburg, and Nuremberg, and take an excursion to Bavaria's capital, Munich. On the banks of the Main River, you'll find small towns tucked away behind defensive walls and towered gates. These picturesque Bavarian villages are a photographer's dream. Visit Würzburg and the impressive Bishop's Residenz, then sail into the Rhine River and stop in Rüdesheim—a quintessential Rhine Valley town. Later, cruise the wide, peaceful curves of the Moselle River Valley, famous for its picturesque scenery, and arrive in the wine village of Bernkastel surrounded by Germany's largest expanse of vineyards. Before you leave, we'll introduce you to some of the famed Moselle wines. In Trier, Germany, believed to be even older than Rome—having been populated over a thousand years before the Romans arrived—a Local Guide will show you the sights, including the Porta Nigra, the only surviving fortified gate from the original Roman settlement. Disembark in Luxembourg and take home many happy memories of this fascinating European river cruise!
City Highlights
Day 1 Budapest (Embarkation): welcome to Hungary; onboard welcome receptionDay 2 Budapest–Vienna: cruising; onboard lecture about Jewish culture Day 3 Vienna: choice of guided sightseeing, or Jewish history tourDay 4 Dürnstein–Wachau Valley–Melk: choice of guided tour, or hike up to the castle ruins in Dürnstein; scenic cruise through the Wachau Valley; guided tour of the Benedictine Abbey in Melk; wine tasting on boardDay 5 Passau: guided walkDay 6 Regensburg: Jewish history guided walk, beer tasting on boardDay 7 Nuremberg: choice of guided sightseeing, or Rally Grounds tour in Nuremberg, or Roth guided tourDay 8 Nuremberg. Munich excursion: excursion to Munich, guided sightseeing, see the MarienplatzDay 9 Bamberg: guided walk, see the Old Town HallDay 10 Würzburg: guided sightseeing, visit the Bishop's ResidenzDay 11 Main River Village: guided walkDay 12 Rüdesheim–Rhine Gorge: visit Siegfried's Mechanical Musical Instrument Museum in Rüdesheim; special treat; cruise through the Rhine GorgeDay 13 Bernkastel: guided walk; wine tastingDay 14 Trier: choice of guided city sightseeing or "Roman Trier," see the Porta NigraDay 15 Remich (Disembarkation): your vacation ends this morning
In the event of water level problems or any problems of a technical nature, it may be necessary to operate the itinerary by motorcoach or to alter the program.Included visits and special features are subject to change. If a change is necessary, a substitute will be offered.Please check visa requirements with your local consulate(s); responsibility for obtaining visas rests with the traveler.


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Lauren Reid, Chief Operating Officer of John Gore Organization, Voted Chair Elect of Broadway League's Board of Governors
The Broadway League has announced that Lauren Reid, Chief Operating Officer of the John Gore Organization, was recently voted Chair Elect of the Board of the Broadway League. Reid will take over the role from Thomas Schumacher, President and Producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, following the completion of Schumacher's full three-year term at the end of 2020.
Reid previously served as the Broadway League's Road Vice-Chair, representing more than 200 venues across the country and presenting touring productions of Broadway shows in 191 cities in the United States. In her capacity as the Vice-Chair of the Road, Reid steered the League's Governance Committee from 2016-2018 along with Chair Thomas Schumacher. During her tenure as Co-Chair of the Intra-Industry Committee from 2016-19, Reid was instrumental in bringing conversations and initiatives about security to the forefront which led to the conception of the Road Security, Communications, and Operations Guide plus the creation of the Road Security Forum. She also advocated for the creation of the Rising Stars professional development program which identifies and mentors the next generation of theater industry leaders, providing them with a full curriculum of sessions taught by producers, presenters, general managers and League members. Reid continues to serve on these committees as well as the Membership, Finance and Biennial Planning committees.
"Lauren has been an active member of the Broadway League for many years helping to guide the industry to consecutive record-breaking seasons. Her extensive experience as a road presenter, producer and marketer along with her love for Broadway give her a deep understanding of what audiences are looking for across the country and what's next for live theater," said Charlotte St. Martin, President of the Broadway League. "It's no wonder that she has earned the respect and admiration of her peers and is the right person at the right time to lead the industry."
In the 2018-2019 season, Broadway attendance reached a record high of 14.8 million admissions, topping the attendance of the ten professional New York and New Jersey sports teams combined. The 2018-2019 season saw record breaking attendance on the road with 18.5 million admissions for touring Broadway shows. Every year, Broadway contributes over $12 billion to the New York City economy and supports over 87,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Touring Broadway has contributed $3.8 billion to local markets across the United States.
To date, 28 new productions have opened in the 2019-2020 season. These productions join 17 long-running shows currently playing. In the spring, 21 more shows are currently scheduled to open. Additionally, 29 Broadway shows are touring to the 191 cities that present Broadway on the Road.


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NCRCAP is a nonprofit organization working across North Carolina since 1987. It's main goal is to provide help and assistance for rural North Carolinians having full access to drinking water, wastewater management and safe houses, which sometimes can be difficult due to low incomes. At the end, the association would like to improve quality of live for people living in the rural area of this american country.
In order to achieve its goals, NCRCAP works on several fields of interests, like advocacy, technical and legal assistance, but also gives help in monitoring works on public health and environmental issues. NCRCAP would also like to improve and sustain equitable economic in rural North Carolina.
How it can reach all those goals? Specific programs and workshops are the way. About programs, NCRCAP develop three main programs:
- Community programs, which gives help to local communities in order to better understand risks about drinking non-potable water and using inadequate wastewater systems
- Healthy homes for all, which gives indications and tips to live in the house without any risk, both for adults and children
- Safe housing initiatives, which want to give help to transform houses of families in needs in more comfortable ones. I.E. installing a proper bathroom where missing.
Workshops provide rural communities of all the informations and tools needed in order to develop a way to properly manage water and wastewater, achieving a rural development goal. Those workshops have been created for privates, small municipal governments and community groups.
At the end, NCRCAP, North Carolina Rural Communities Assistance Project, has the goal to improve quality of life for small and rural communities in this american country, for a better future of today's children.


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The decision to dismiss Mike Brown as Lakers head coach just five games into the season was based on the team's disappointing start and the organization's sense of urgency around a team that was built to contend for an NBA championship, the Lakers' general manager said Friday.
Brown was fired -- a decision Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak described as "difficult and painful" -- Friday after a 1-4 start to a season that began with aspirations for a 17th NBA title.
"It's really simple," Kupchak said at a Friday news conference. "It's wins and losses."
The move comes after an off season in which Los Angeles added two all-stars to a talented core of Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Metta World Peace. The team was off to a slow start and showed few signs of improvement, Kupchak said.
"We're not looking five or 10 years down the road," Kupchak said. "This team was built to contend this year."
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"It's certainly a possibility that you go to another team," Kupchak said. "I think it's a bigger possibility that you look to another team for an existing assistant coach."
The Lakers are scheduled to play Friday night at Staples Center against the Warriors. The game marks the first of six consecutive homes games, giving the Lakers an opportunity to get on track against a string of Western Conference foes.
The Lakers have the worst record in the West. Only winless Washington and Detroit -- the Lakers' lone win -- in the Eastern Conference have worse records.
"It's a pretty direct message to all of us,'' Gasol said when he left the Lakers' shootaround Friday in El Segundo. "There's no messing around. It's time for all of us to step it up.''
Kupchak told the team about the move Friday morning.
"He told us the decision was made,'' Gasol said. "We didn't have a good start, and this is a team that was built to win. That's what we're all here to do.''
Brown expressed optimism after Thursday's practice. He was asked what disappointed him most about the first five games.
"Before we beat Detroit, the two biggest areas were our turnovers and our inability to stop them converting the few offensive rebounds they got into points," Brown said. "Against Detroit, we did a better job of cleaning those areas up. I thought last night we continued to do a better job of continuing to clean those areas up."
Brown took over as Lakers head coach last season -- the 22nd coach in franchise history. He previously coached the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2005 to 2010.
The Lakers were 41-25 under Brown. LA was bounced in the second round of the playoffs by Oklahoma City last year.
Kupchak was asked about the system that Brown, heralded as a defensive coach, had in place. The system borrowed from the Princeton offense, so-named because of the Princeton University men's basketball team.
The offense emphasizes constant motion, passing, picks off the ball and cuts in the half court. Questions were raised as to whether that suited the players' talents, particularly a point guard with Nash's creativity.
"We did struggle to score," Kupchak said. "We introduced a new offense. I think to some degree it was unfair to be categorized as the Princeton offense. There was a lot more mixed into it."


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LONDON -- It began with a smile at the starting line.
Moments later, Oscar Pistorius took off and the click-click-clicking of carbon on the track was all but drowned out by the 80,000 fans on hand to watch him make history Saturday. The first amputee to compete in track at the Olympics, Pistorius cruised past an opponent or two in the backstretch of his 400-meter heat, and by the end, the "Blade Runner" was coasting in for a stress-free success.
Typical. Except this time, it was anything but that.
"I've worked for six years ... to get my chance," said the South African, who finished second and advanced to Sunday night's semifinals. "I found myself smiling in the starting block. Which is very rare in the 400 meters."
Yes, this sun-splashed day at Olympic Stadium was a good one for Pistorius, a double-amputee who runs on carbon-fiber blades and whose fight to get to this point has often felt more like a marathon than a sprint. He walked out of the tunnel, looked into the stands, saw his friends and family there -- including his 89-year-old grandmother, who was carrying the South African flag.
"It's very difficult to separate the occasion from the race," Pistorius conceded.
But he figured it out. He finished in a season-best time of 45.44 seconds, crossing the line and looking up at the scoreboard, then covering his face with his hands when he saw the capital "Q" -- for qualifier -- go up by his name.
"Couldn't have hoped for anything better," he said.
The 25-year-old runner was born without fibulas and his legs were amputated below the knee before he was a year old. His is one of those stories that is every bit as much about the journey -- one part dramatic, another part inspiring and yet another part controversial -- as the final result.
"I know Oscar was the protagonist in the race," said Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic, who actually won the heat by .4 but went virtually unnoticed. "But I love him. He's a good racer."
Erison Hurtault of Dominica, who trained with Pistorius in South Africa, agreed.
"One thing I can say about Oscar is he's an incredibly hard worker," Hurtault said. "I'm glad to see him out here. I'm glad he's getting a chance to finally compete and hopefully something emerges out of everyone else's mind."
Pistorius' race, of course, resonated beyond sports and beyond London.
The runner's father, Henk, and Gerry Versfeld, the surgeon who amputated Oscar's legs, watched the heat at a restaurant in Johannesburg with some friends. The father and the doctor hugged after the race and there were tears in Henk Pistorius' eyes.
"To now stand on the pinnacle of where you strived and you hoped and you dreamed to be must be an amazingly emotional feeling for him," he said. "I feel compassion and pride."
Pistorius is an accomplished runner, with four Paralympic gold medals, but he waged a long fight to run in the Olympics against able-bodied opponents.
After dozens of hearings in front of hundreds of men and women in suits charged with the task of deciding whether the blades gave Pistorius an unfair advantage -- then getting his country's Olympic committee to accept his qualifying times and enter him into the Games -- Pistorius finally got his chance.
He shook hands with his opponents, crouched into the blocks, flashed that smile and then -- in so many ways, it was just another race, with Pistorius among the fastest men in it.
"You've got to understand that Oscar is an exceptional athlete," said Versfeld, the surgeon. "I mean, he is an amazingly talented person. I think the chances that there are going to be many other athletes with disabilities, amputations, I think the chances that they will be able to compete with able-bodied athletes is not high and I really think we are seeing a one-of type situation."
Bursting out of the crouch from Lane 6, Pistorius got going slowly, but built up steam in the backstretch. He made up the lag and was easily among the top three when the runners turned into the backstretch. He passed Russia's Maksim Dyldin and then, as all the top runners do in a 400 prelim, eased off the gas over the final few meters to save energy for the next one.
"Just had a short unplanned nap to wake up with a smile on my face... :) Still feels a little surreal to be here and in the Semi tomorrow!" read a tweet on Pistorius' account.
Though he knows his personal-best of 45.07 seconds isn't fast enough to truly contend for a medal, Pistorius wants to be more than simply a set piece at these Olympics. His goal was to be a factor, to earn a spot in the semifinals, and he did that -- something the defending champion in this event, LaShawn Merritt, did not.
"He's fought to get here. He's here. Great guy, friend of mine," said Merritt, who pulled up lame with an injured hamstring halfway through his race and won't get to face Pistorius on the track.
One man who might, Britain's Nigel Levine, is among those who sounded less than thrilled about all the hype over Pistorius, who will also compete for South Africa in the 4x400-meter relay next week.
"Ask him," Levine said when asked if Pistorius had an advantage. "I'll keep my opinion to myself on that one. It has nothing to do with me."
Advantage or no, getting to the semifinals was never a sure thing. Then again, there haven't been many sure things for the "Blade Runner" on this Olympic road. And so, he appreciates every moment.
"It sometimes difficult to think the athletes and the friends and family of those who are here really understand what it's about," Pistorius said. "To be out here and to know you sacrificed 'X' amount to achieve this is just really mind-blowing."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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OCEAN CITY — Thanks to the sand dunes, Ocean City escaped the worst storm to hit the resort in over a decade last week with minimal damage.
Aesthetically, Ocean City took a bit of a thumping from what City Engineer Terry McGean called the "Friday the 13th storm and the worst since 1998" as the downtown areas of Ocean City was underwater and flooded from the rise of the bay. On the ocean side, almost a quarter to one half of the dune system has eroded away as 20-foot waves pushed water levels to the various property lines along the coast.
Yet, when McGean briefed the Mayor and Council on Monday night at City Hall, he described the evident silver lining after one of the most blustery weekends the town has seen in years.
"Without the beach and dunes [they work together], we would have had ocean flooding," said McGean. "We saw the extent of flooding from the bay, now imagine that same thing coming from the ocean, only this time with the force of 20-foot waves behind it. We would likely have suffered moderate building and structural damage, severe oceanside street flooding with sand piled up in the streets and first-floor buildings. Instead, our damage was limited to some sand in the Inlet parking lot, some damaged Christmas decorations and some damage to the Chicago Avenue bayside boardwalk."
Public Works Director Hal Adkins said that almost three feet of sand had piled in the southeast section of the Inlet Parking lot, forcing crews to create a two-way traffic pattern until the piles of sand could be removed.
Onlookers have sporadically visited the Inlet to survey the scene with their own eyes, including a mountain of sand piled all the way up to the pier and scattered debris, according to Adkins.
Adkins, too, praised the town's dune system.
"Ocean City seemed to fare much better then our counterparts to the south and north of us thanks specifically to our dune system," he said. "Had the dune system not been in place, I feel assured we'd be cleaning a lot of sand and debris off Coastal Highway from 27th Street north to the Delaware line, and our oceanfront property owners would have a lot of home repairs to complete."
Usually, this is a busy week for the Public Works Department anyway, as the final touches to the grandiose Winterfest of Lights are completed, but this week Adkins said that it was essentially "all hands on deck" to clean up what the storm left behind.
"The entire construction department spent the first half of this week with front-end loaders and dump trucks clearing debris from the beach, which was mostly mangled piles of 4x4s all tied together with rope that use to be the perimeter fencing along the east toe of the primary dune," said Adkins. "The Maintenance Department focused on fine cleaning the Boardwalk and reconstructing any damaged portions of Winterfest."
There were no major damages to the light displays at Winterfest of Lights, largely because the majority of the downtown displays were victim to budget cuts last year, and weren't caught in the storm. Adkins said that some of the Christmas trees along Baltimore Avenue and Coastal Highway were blown over.
"If those displays had been out there as we had in year's past, we would have had a substantial amount of cost to the town in replacement costs, probably between $75,000-100,000," said City Manager Dennis Dare.
McGean met with the Department of Natural Resources and FEMA this week to fully assess the extent of the erosion damage and what will need to be done to restore the beach back to it's pre-storm appearance.
Ironically, there was a planned beach replenishment project set for spring of 2010, as part of the ongoing program that has pumped sand onto Ocean City beaches usually on an annual basis since 1994.
The town had allotted $500,000 for the project this year, with Worcester County matching those funds and the state scheduled to pay $1 million for beach replenishment in 2010, as per the terms of the contract as explained by Dare.
McGean said the town has received offers of help and support from the state's political figureheads as well as federal disaster relief organizations like FEMA.
"We are working with FEMA, MEMA, the Corps of Engineers and the Department of Natural Resources to fully assess the damage to the beach and come up with a plan and funds for its repair," said McGean. "Clean up is in process. We should have all the loose debris off the beach within two weeks, and we are working with DNR on an emergency contract to remove the rest of the damaged sand fence and move sand from those areas that gained sand to repair the dunes with the most damage. We hope to have a contract in place in 30-60 days and I would expect work to take 30 days."
Still, the biggest project will be to fully restore the proverbial hero of the storm of the decade, the town's dune system, according to town officials.
"The important thing to note is that the [beach replenishment] project did its job," said McGean. "The dunes have grown naturally overtime and provided us with a great amount of protection, and we still have a good amount of protection left. Lastly, you have to remember that we lost sand and some fence, not property or lives."


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Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
Communicating with People Outside the Organization - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
Working with Computers - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
Scheduling Work and Activities - Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others - Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
Analyzing Data or Information - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |